Final Fantasy XIII-2’s first week sales figures reveal it has been outsold by Tales of Xillia, a fact which is being greeted as a massive humiliation and confirmation that Final Fantasy brand now lies in ruins.

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It’s a shame to see Final Fantasy having declined so much. And it’s sad that Japanese games overall are in the doldrums. Bought a PS3 just for FFXIII and hugely regret it. The last great FF for me was XII, Godly game, but XIII failed. And XIV is the worst Main FF I have ever played, god damn awful.

But What annoys me though is people going on about how Western games are so awesome now and Japanese games suck etc.

The only reason Western Games are dominating this generation is because Japanese gaming really has fallen so very very far.

Western Games maybe the best they have ever been but thats not really saying much as they are still mediocre in the grand scheme of things. I keep playing these so called great games of this generation and they are nothing compared to the average good Japanese game’s of previous generations.

Playing Skyrim right now. It is a good game to be sure, enjoying it immensely, but the game is only a stand out by this generations poor standards! Probably is game of the year, but not saying a lot is it?

This whole generation has been a bust for so many different reasons, Japanese gaming’s huge decline being the major reason. Games are going the same way as Movies Anime and Music…A tidal wave of supreme tat 🙁

Squeenix doesn’t have a sense of direction now. Just take a look at Duodecim. Its opening cinema is just as cut and paste of old videos plus a little bit of new ones. The whole story and gameplay is basically just an expansion pack of Dissidia. Or how about FFXII? When your character reaches Archadia its already the last part of the game. And what’s with the Flying Fortress Behemoth? Its too damn easy and short for a final dungeon?! Hell its even smaller than the Leviathan?! Squeenix likes to release crap and expect everyone to like it.

It’s only by a thousand or so units. that’s hardly anything, and nothing to make such a huge outcry over, too. Furthermore, that it outsold a sequel to a game that was loathed for being linear and a letdown is nothing surprising either; the Tales team have always managed to create original and inventive storylines, whereas the FF teams began to stagnate after FFVIII, it seems. just look at Tales of Innocence for the DS; an absolutely wonderful game that was only made better in that the characters came to life in that they interacted with each other; it’s not that the FF games after 8 didn’t have good story lines, but rather that they created worlds and executed them poorly; they relied solely on brand power rather than original characterization. just look at FFXII; great game, ruined by the fact that the main character (vaan) was an immature brat who soiled the game with his presence.

Wait I’m confused…..I thought FFXIII didn’t sell well in the first place…..Too many people bitchy about being linear…which I still don’t get since its a JRPG and I think most rpgs are linear in the first place….but you can say that about most games…I probably just don’t know what “linear” means. Anyway that’s not what I came to say anyway. I like the Tales of series….I wish people would stop dissing it.

I dunno. Either way, I’m glad I have been finished with the Final Fantasy series for a long while now. Most of the time, I’m playing Tales of the World Radiant Mythology 1, 2, and 3, Tales of Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, and Idolm@ster SP on my PSP. Namco really has got my ass hooked like a crackwhore without her crackpipe. Final Fantasy is dead. Period. FF Fanfags, cry yourselves an ocean and drown in it…or get ripped to bloody guro shit by the tiger shark that is Namco.

But I will say this, while I am still interested in Final Fantasy Versus XIII, I have only seen a few trailers of it….and then nothing at all. Not even a release date…that may be Square Enix’s “lit candle or torch” but I’m afraid it is far too late…I have moved on. Onward, Tales!

PC gaming has it so over this repetitious drek. Any open ended RPG like Fallout, Mass Effect or Skyrim is worth 10 of these shitty linear JRPGs. They are meant for lemmings who want to led around by the nose like the Japanese.

We can blame everything on those barbarians called Americans. If those ignorant Amerifags would step out of their country, they would realize that they are hated everywhere. Amerifags love to start wars and have heart disease.

No, they realise they made mistakes in 13, and want to make a sequel so to fix them. And it looks like they have, too. Keep having faith, man. Just because of ONE kinda crappy game you start hating on SE? Really?

I really hope they don’t remake FF7. It was a good game, but it’s had it’s corpse fucked over and over just so Squeenix could make a buck in the most shameless way possible. You cant honestly say the number of bad to moderately decent games and movies did anything push the story in a direction resembling good.

And remaking it is only delaying the inevitable. If they cant make something new and original, without falling into the predictable bullshit we’re used to, then why bother making a games at all?

My fear is this: FF7 remake sells better than crack, and Squeenix starts to believe they can still make games because they managed to exploit the nostalgia of it’s fans. Then we get more needless spinoffs and bad main entries into the series

It is that Squenix directors do not understand it was Hironobu Sakaguchi who was their gold mine. They think they know it all, but they don’t know shit. They cannot see what gamers want, the way Sakaguchi did. Because they don’t enjoy games themselves, all they can do is just assume what would appeal to gamers and what not. Sakaguchi never assumed. He knew.

that Gooch fanboys seriously believe this even though Sakaguchi hasn’t been able to produce anything that affirms their fantasy since he formed Mistwalker.

Gooch seeing what gamers want produced Blue Dragon, a JRPG that was 15 years late to the party.

Gooch seeing what gamers want produced a series of DS rpgs of which Westerners only saw a handful of and at one point Nintendo actually publicly said Sakaguchi wasn’t financially worth working with (that’s some “gold mine”).

Gooch seeing what gamers want produced a grand total of 1 game of any particular acclaim, Lost Odyssey, and even then it sold a fifth of what Final Fantasy XIII-2 did in Japan.
if thats what Square-Enix “deserved” i think they’re pretty happy with it. they’d be in even worse shape selling Sakaguchi numbers.

Sakaguchi never assumed. he knew.
thats why Mistwalker hasn’t been able to produce any solid financial hits, MS dumped him, and Nintendo has waffled over how much they want to work with him.

Blame the low expectation for this game after the trainwreck FFXIII and FFXIV were. Even though they fixed everything that was wrong with the game this time, the damage was already done.

…And please tell me i’m not the only one who’s annoyed with the “OH NOES MAKE THE FFVII REMAKE ALREADY LOL” comments. If they can’t produce anything original and rely on remaking games, then FF IS truely dead.

Exactly. Most of the people bitching just sit there and compare games all day without really examining any one game in detail. Yes, some were better than others, and some had major faults compared to others of their kind, but individually they were all good games.

I don’t jump band wagons. What I said IS my opinion. I grew up playing squaresoft rpgs way back on snes and playstation and played square-enix ones from ps2 onward and they just don’t have that charm or originality as squaresoft.

Just stop bitching everyone!
If you can do better, then apply for a job there or make your own game that sells 1million.
If you can’t then just shut up. Badmouthing other people’s work is just plain pathetic.

but ignoring whatever sales legs XIII-2 might have in Japan; the likelihood that it’ll still put in a solid 250-500k at least in NA and EU means that XIII-2 will likely still get it’s ~1.0-1.5 million sold.

Guys, just stop. You guys are idiots. Let FF7 be, quit getting nostalgic, and play some other games. FF13-2 looks like an awesome game, if you dont like the newer FF games just because they arent like your oh-so precious nostalgic treasure FF games, you suck and you dont deserve to be even called a gamer. If they make another JRPG with the same outdated stuff like in their older FF, it WILL NOT go well. So SHUT THE FRICKIN HELL UP!!!

GUYS JUST FRIGGIN STOP!!! Let FF7 be, quit getting nostalgic, and play some other games. FF13-2 looks like an awesome game, if you dont like the newer FF games just because they arent like your oh-so precious nostalgic treasure FF games, you suck and you dont deserve to be even called a gamer. If they make another JRPG with the same outdated stuff like in their older FF, it WILL NOT go well. So SHUT THE FRICKIN HELL UP!

All said and done, I think their number will be boasted greatly by the international sales. Japan is somewhat of a closed community – they decided to hate FF13 and they wont buy FF13-2. However as I take it the west was far more accepting of SE’s paradigm shift in JRPG gameplay.

I still believe that FF13-2 will have a nice opening weekend figure overseas – loads of my friends have ordered it, not all of us are even JRPG fans. (myself included, I’ve never played any of the Tales Games.)

This is pretty sad. Not just for what it means for the FF franchise, but that the Tales series of all games outsold this, when Tales games are essentially the same game with a different story wrapper. Say what you will about FF games, they’re at least trying new things with their gameplay mechanics, especially since FFX. The Tales series reflects what is so wrong with Japanese game development right now and JRPGs in particular–same shit, slightly improved graphics and a somewhat different story, but the gameplay is almost exactly the same.

Although it may mean the final death of FF14, which has been improving dramatically since it was released, SEneed to clean out the upper management, get some fresh faces in there and streamline their production process so each game doesn’t take 5 years to produce. Skyrim is much bigger than just about any JRPG and was only in a full development cycle for 2 years for instance.

the only thing that ff could manage to sell now is a redone ff7. this may the be the tip of the iceburg for them to finally do it if they can get the incredible amount of money and time it would take to do.

Oh noes, Final Fantasy isn’t #1? It’s not the end of the world. SE just needs to understand they can’t always release games and hope to rely on the popularity of a product (popularity =/= quality). A game might have good sales but if it’s quality is subpar, it’ll start to alienate the customers as they keep releasing games of similar quality. Granted, FF isn’t the only series SE has and I’d rather see a good game than a wasted attempt at making a FF game without putting serious effort into it.

Also, to be honest, I’ve been a bigger fan of the Tales series but I can’t take it seriously either since they barely release any of their games in NA. I still think JRPGs have good titles but it is important to understand that mainstream RPGs aren’t the only good ones. There’s lots of obscure jrpgs out there and some are really nice and fun to play but they only need to be given a chance.

I once played a game that made me think: “This is what all RPGs should be like!”

A game with an unique plot, that let you interact with a vast number of characters and highly detailed environments, and eschewed the archaic conventions of menu-driven combat, constant random battles, and experience grinding.

Very disappointing sales for FFXIII-2. It’s a sequel so it’s kinda expected. Looks like not many people love FFXIII.

And for the sales comparison for Vita and the 3DS, don’t forget the Vita only managed to sell for 2 days, while the 3DS for a whole week. It might be able to sell more if it register as selling for 1 whole week.

you have to wait longer i think… why? simple because if the game is good it will spread fast but not after a week… If i were a japanese i would wait untill i get more opinions of the game before buying it looking that the last games werent that good.

Are people really complaining about a minor 1,000 unit difference between the games and going as far as to say Final Fantasy is dead because of it?

Just because the first week sales of a Final Fantasy game isn’t as large a number as the previous games were doesn’t mean the game is a failure. I mean it sold over half a million units for gods sake, half a million people BOUGHT THE GAME and that’s a flop to you people??????

Plus the game has yet to out in the states, who knows what the overall sales for both the Japanese and the U.S. release will be combined.

To say their scraping the bottom of the barrel is a gross understatement. They have literally punched a hole through the barrel and are scraping at the dirt beneath.

I say they step away from FF and try something new and fresh. Everyone is preaching about how they need to remake FF7 but frankly, I only see that as a last ditch effort. Because I can tell you, if they do remake it, put voices, put it in HD, it will sell but then they have nothing left to fall back on if their next project flops and given their recent track record, is almost a guarantee that it will.

man I think it will probably sell in NA america so it might not be as dead as that but thats pretty bad when you see the gap of half a million. Tbh i was surprised it still sold that many FF has been on the downward spiral of crappyness for a while imho.

I hope Square Enix runs out of money and will finally be forced to remake their good 90s RPGs to stay afloat. Perhaps remaking their old good RPGs will remind their current staff what a good RPG looks and feels like.

They wont run out of money, Dragon Quest sells alot in Japan, its their number 1 RPG, they publish alot of games from other companies, Deus Ex for example which was a sucess, they help on CoD, so yea wont happen, and if it happens, it wont be in the near future.

Damn people are stupid. OMG its a few hundred thousand less. Compared to the others its second. Damn. Thats soo bad. IF they want to make it, they need to rethink things and have someone new behind the ideas.

By terms of virtue, I think that square enix has recently following its philosophy quite vaguely on presumption with their archetypes and probably with relations on other companies(take disney and their kingdom hearts series for example) to give enough trust to potential clients and customers.

Castlevania is dead in your mind!The last game was truly awesome and,in my opinion,is better than a lot of overrated only graphic and button mashing action(aka God Of War )!
For the other titles,instead,i perfectly agree with you they are already dead from some years now…

It doesn’t really matter whether it was good or not, since Lords of Shadow didn’t sell that well. Partly due to Konami pretty much refusing to advertise it. But then, Konami have always seemed like they just wanted this series to die…

Except the total PS3 numbers in existence right now are nowhere near the number of PS2’s in existence when FFX-2 was released. Not to mention it had the benefit of being released during a time when economies were soaring and it was riding on the coatails of a wildly popular game. An FF sequel was unheard of back then.

I always thought the tales series was a far superior game series overall, better story telling, much better gameplay, characters that are actually interesting without reling on every main char being a emo like the FF series seems to rely on lately. Only thing FF beats tales series in is probally graphics, because they just can’t do those kinds of graphics with tale’s true realtime combat system. They won’t in FF games because its all turn based.

I kind of disagree on the story in most Tales games since they’re so cheesy and very by-the-books, anime style. Always some ‘goody two shoes general’ goes all bad (or even the actual main villain), the childhood friend you have always is an antagonist of sorts, etc. But it’s a nice, stable story I guess.

Also, why is it only about Tales and Final Fantasy? The best RPG series I see in that list is Inazuma Eleven!

The problem about the FF series, is it tend to be too experimental. And the storytelling mode is usually stagnant on the epic. Tales, on the other hand works on the more popular formula which everyone understands easily, regardless of intelligence.

The FF series needs to reassure the fans that there won’t be another FF13/14 to bring down its name.

i dont care what the sales are. been playing ffxiii-2 for a few days now and its great. much better than the original and more addictive. they really did improve, but like anyone who
got the feel to dis the game. its their own opinion, but from my view. ffxiii-2 is definitely a great game.

Andriasang reported on Famitsu’s numbers from Enterbrain. Enterbrain states that 321,407 PlayStation Vitas were sold on December 17th and 18th. These numbers are respectable, to be sure, but still fall short of Nintendo 3DS’ first two days on the Japanese market in February, when Nintendo’s handheld sold 371,326 units to consumers.

Very true, and I’m not arguing that the 3DS didn’t do better in its launch, but the numbers Artefact posted were from the whole of last week, which was put up against the Vita’s first two days. I just dislike that kind of journalism, though.

Wooow waaait wait wait. FFXIII-2 has already been released in Japan?! Like, how the hell long did we have to wait for FFXIII but they already released FFXIII-2?! I’m aware that with FFXIII being done they have a finished engine and other stuff done they can directly use in FFXIII-2 but.. still.

I never though FF6 was all that good, the world of balance was great, but once world of ruin hit the game just fell apart, it really lacked any story in the second half besides find chars kill last boss.

The world of ruin is what made the game great, in my opinion. I mean, every other j/rpg is about stopping the villain from destroying the world; Kefka ends up destroying it, and that dynamic made the story so much more interesting to me.

Oh look, I finally get to see the ratio compared to FFX and FFX-2. I’d rather say that Final Fantasy “sequels” are dead, spin-offs? not quite. The main series is in danger for sure but nothing that can’t be addressed.

What I am more interested in is not the FF main series but the Type series instead though! 😀

Everyone should stop talking about this completely since all they can say is everything is done. NOTHING is done, there is obviously a market and there will be for a long time. A few years ago people also said anime is done but it is now very far from it. I hope and believe that producers will ignore the loud mouthed idiots of the internet.

Final Fantasy will be fine. As much as people bitch about FFXIII it did really well. And as much as people are bitching now FFXIII-2 will do really well. And then even if those people bitch after it does well, FFvsXIII will do extremely well.

And then they’ll still bitch because “It wasn’t exactly like this other FF that I really liked in the past but at the same time I want them to keep trying new things!”

Long story short, stop being sheep and fucking play the game before bitching instead of letting 2ch do your thinking for you.

I don’t know why people think FF is done for. FF coming in second to a game doesn’t mean it flopped. Sure it usually does better than everyone, but that hardly means anything.

That’s like saying Harry Potter flopped because it came in second to Lord of the Rings. The reality is that both made tons of money. It’ll be the same with this FF game, especially when the sales go international.

I didn’t expect massive sales records to be broken with this one but ya, it’s probably coming off the momentum from its prequel.
IMO, Square has messed up the whole open-ness of the FF games. Though it didn’t have much of a story, I believed FFXII nailed the gameplay and open word aspect dead on. Trying to innovate, they kinda fell failed and failed pretty bad.
But still, i’d like to read reviews first. Sales is one thing, the game could still be good.

I for one still love the old Squaresoft Final Fantasy games.
It’s just that under Square Enix the whole brand suffered from a rapid quality drop. Most of SE’s recent games have been just plain bad and uninspiring.

I don’t think you can blame the unpopularity of the game on chauvinism. Remember a lot of jrpgs have female protagonist and lightning fits into the tsundere categorization of moe fetishes. A lot more “tsun” than “dere” but still.

Plus, jrpgs released in the West remain popular in spite of when androgynous, angst-driven young boys are the protagonists. Americans in particular are at least if not more homophobic than the Japanese are chauvinistic.

I don’t care much what other people say. FF13 is quite good as a game in my opinion. It has plenty of depth in many areas. Sure, the corridors can be a bit dull and simple in their design, but the sceneries, visuals and gameplay mechanics defenitly are above par in my book.

I’ve played most of the later FF games (FF9, 7, 8, X and X-2 in that order), but I try not to compare this with those, because, frankly, it’s a new game with new ideas, and if I wanna play FF7, then I simply start that game instead.

I didn’t think most of the characters were one-dimensional. On the contrary, I think they all had a lot going for them. The problem was the poor presentation of their situations.

Fang and Vanile had to make some painful decisions and were faced with never seeing their home as they knew it again, but this was largely brushed over when it could have been a huge, painful, interesting part of the plot.

Sahz’s story was done pretty well with what happened to his son and how he dealt with it. I think it would have been more powerful if we saw more of his past though.

Hope had a lot of character development. He was mentally and physically weak in the beginning, but he evolved from that to attempting murder, then growing up a little more and realizing that wasn’t the answer.

Snow was well-written and fun, but he needed more conflict. He had great intentions but those intentions were never challenged enough.

And Lightning was a great character. She was already a soldier and pretty goal driven. She seemed to lack development because we’re used to characters who don’t start out half as skilled. But as a leader she was better than the majority of FF protagonists in the leadership role. She made great decisions and saw clearly as a soldier, not some over-emotional prick like so often in the past.

I think Nomura is great with characters and story lines, because he’s proven himself in the past, but I think the linearity of the game killed a lot of what was set up for the characters.

Lightning was awesome. I liked her character and have no problem with her. She was hot too. But most importantly she was capable and intelligent and not some damsel and she didn’t whine all the fucking time like most of the more popular FF protagonists.

Japanese people probably didn’t like her because Japanese men are weak and so the weaker the woman the better for them.

that’s actually true; the reason why FFXIII and FFXIII-2 are doing so poorly isn’t because of the lack of story or whatnot, it’s because of the fact that Japanese men hate the fact that there’s a female character who is better at a “man’s” job then other heroes in the past, and therefore shames the boys playing the games; she makes them look weak and cowardly. Just look at how patriarchal Japanese culture is; women are finally realizing that the men they want to marry all plan to treat them like shit! just look at the reports here on sankaku recently: one of the top things Japanese men worried about was whether their prospective wife was “good at chores” or not; heck, it’s the reason that their birthrate is so low: women don’t want to marry men who refuse to be there for them. And I’m writing this as a guy who watches tons of anime and plays most every JRPG out there!

I have recently revisited VII and can believe this time line. The detail they placed in this game is stunning. Each house is furnished to the finest detail. Cigarettes with ash in the tray, bottle caps next to the bottles, etc.

If they ever decided to remake it all they need to do is up the resolution. Keep everything the same. but also allow a First Person view of the surroundings as this would add the extra Pull.

Characters would need to stay in Anime form. This is the most most most important element. Changing character design to anything else would destroy this title. This is my biggest worry if they ever redid it, as the PS3 demo Aries looked to Human.

No way man, if they remake FFVII now it would be worse then FFXIII. Squere can’t produce quality games. The only department they are good at is graphics and cutscenes but that doesn’t make a whole game.

^ agreed, although i liked the old games better, square didn’t live off in remakes, it made new and refreshing ideas. Quality and dept was it’s selling point. Remakes have a chance to flop and disappointing old players, it’s nothing but a fan service, and honestly i think hiding behind remakes makes it looks like they’re scarred of taking risks. They’re being too safe.

They also don’t justify the sequels of their other games, all they see is FF, they have other good franchise they have yet to develop and improve. They’re rushing things too much. I think square before had passion, now i think money is all they could ever think off.

Along the idealogies of a certain Malstrom,
sales figures are an indicator of quality:
Aside from the ‘hardcore’ fans that are already in the fanbase, products are ‘good’ if more people are willing to shell out their cash for it.

In FF’s case, 13 had some selling points (lol, hype and disbelief), but had terrible reception – now, its quality is felt in the aftershock (in this case, XII-2’s sales lol)

If those games are so good, then I dont see the point of a remake. Think about it. If there happens to be a remake, and it was absolutely well done, You all would just go play the remake and forget all about the original. Let the games be, we consider them a masterpiece, just leave it untouched.

They should really just re-release all the old FF games to the PS Store and then they might have a good dollar. For now, just leave SE be, they arent stupid, they are just trying something new.

Square has been doing real sequels for games for a bit and its always been oh god no more of this. Tactics advance? Fuck that. Dirge of Cerebus? Fuck that. X-2? Fuck that with a rusted chain saw. Remakes they haven’t quite had so much difficulty with. The FF4 5 6 advance show that imo.

Guys, just stop. You guys are idiots. Let FF7 be, quit getting nostalgic, and play some other games. FF13-2 looks like an awesome game, if you dont like the newer FF games just because they arent like your oh-so precious nostalgic treasure FF games, you suck and you dont deserve to be even called a gamer. If they make another JRPG with the same outdated stuff like in their older FF, it WILL NOT go well. So SHUT THE FRICKIN HELL UP!

1. Theres nothing wrong with the newer ones, you guys just want every FF game to be like FF7. FF10 was really good, and so was FF12. FF13 was a little misstep, not because of the combat, just the sheer linearity of everything. Why would you call of this absolute shit?
2. Umm, why exactly?
3. Bad habit. Its just that there are sites around the internet that kick you out if you try posting curse words. Apparently it isnt like that here.

A few things, one, the new FF games are absolute shit, if you like them, good for you, I imagine a few people must. Two I am NOT a nostalgic ridden FF fanboy, I have never been a big fan of them so this is a non-biased response, the new ones are even WORSE than the old ones were, at least they were bearable. Three, no one is going to take you serious online if you use the word “frickin” it makes you sound like an adolescent girl afraid of using naughty language, either learn a plethora of new vocabulary, or be the like the rest of the population on the internet and use vulgarity, not half assed cursing like “fricken”.

FFX was awesome. People were way too hard on it. The story was great, the characters were fun, and I appreciated the concept and themes behind the worlds in that game. And it fucking had Auron.

But it was a bit linear, and the complaints about that were already rolling in. So the fact that they made FFXIII as linear as it was was ridiculous, because they had negative feedback on that exact issue years ago with FFX.

“I just hope now that everyone’s got their chance at being all fair-weather fan about FF XIII-2 they actually play the fucker and shut up. Thankfully it’s on its way here next month anyway and I get to think for myself.

I don’t want a remake of FFX. I know, I’m in the minority that hates X, but I truly thought it was a terrible game, with a terrible plot, that was incredibly easy except for 2 story boss fights. The only fun I had in the game was at the very end when the Monster Arena was unlocked.

I just think people were waiting for peoples’ reaction to this game before purchasing considering so many felt disappointed by XIII. I personally don’t understand what was so wrong with it. The characters were decently written at worst, especially true now that I’m seeing what passes for ‘writing’ in Star Ocean 4. And people had the gall to say Infinite Undiscovery was worse than SO4 and I’d like those people to wear special tags so I can beat them unmercifully upon recognition.

Either way, I wish the game I worked on had had such ‘abysmal’ sales in its first week. Most games never even reach 500K. Resonance of Fate needs a sequel like nobody’s business, and its lifetime sales are around the 500K mark across the planet, and not even at full price for all of those sales.

I just hope now that everyone’s got their chance at being all fair-weather fan about FF XIII-2 they actually play the fucker and shut up. Thankfully it’s on its way here next month anyway and I get to think for myself.

A major title/investment from a company in a pretty bad financial situation only sold about half as well as their most conservative estimates? May not be a big deal to you, but you can bet it is to SE…

Isn’t saying the franchise is dying a bit much, XIII-2 being a side-game and sequel to a not-well-received game and all? Of course it isn’t going to sell as well as the next main game in another hit series.

After X-2 it all went to shit.
Maybe this is a good thing.
It will allow Western RPG companies to keep growing and develop awesome titles (which already seems to be happening)
J-RPG and their horrible archetypes of characters and soul-less gaming seem to have just gotten even worse.

Yes, the best way to revitalize the series is to make a rehash of what is ultimately a series of the same formulaic kind of games. Let’s make a rehash of a rehash of a rehash. we’ll call it “Shit-ception”.

Seriously. They don’t need to remake 7 or 8. God 8 was a clusterfuck of design. Overly complex menus/leveling for your characters and GF’s, weird as fuck story, and god damn level scaling for bosses.

Oh, and let’s not forget that 8 went over budget, and pulled the rug out from under a better game. Xenogears.

Xenogears was actually out before VIII and being developed at the same time it was and went massively over its own alloted budget. The failures of its production are entirely its team’s for failling to deliver a finished product after spending a near FF level budget on a new untested IP that got much more than it otherwise would.